When You See More

You can trace each atom in your body
to some particular star.
To a star! that was alive,
and gifted you its essence.
Which stars are you from?
Pleiades for me, and maybe
we were even neighbors.

Make-believe, you say?
Sure, that’s the way life works.
Seeing is believing but not just with your eyes.
Believing makes
the landscape of your earth life.
And changes it
when you see more.

Most of the time,
I don’t mind the crying or the dying.
A land without it wouldn’t
be worth dressing up
spirit in a body.
All that bother growing toes and the rest.
I’d miss the passion pure light doesn’t know.

When you believe that each of your atoms
comes from an actual star,
nothing much else is hard to believe.
Why not dive heartfirst
into the so ephemeral senses.
It will make (your) believe
stretch all the way back to stars.

©Susa Silvermarie 2024

*after listening to the song, Land of Make Believe